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Emm Gryner Quotes

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 8, 1975

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Me Writing Become Up Get Just

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.

Guitar You Play Sometimes Want Kind

I get embarrassed by people. It's really awkward for me to have a chat with people who have been to see a gig.

Andrew Lawrence

People Me See Embarrassed Awkward

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was just forming a band.

John McLaughlin

Unexpected Band Orchestra Out Just

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

Day Remember Black-And-White Colour

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

Character Relationship Think You Say

I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

Find Out Necessity 1940s Everybody

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Good Good Idea Fired Get Willing

Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity, and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation? Meanwhile, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences hides behind the 'peer' voting system to escape culpability for not even rethinking its approach.

Voting Know Escape Celebrity Winners

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Door World You Understand Try Deal

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

Actor Bus Driver England Bus Driver

Mexico is a very mom-centered culture. You'll find stores open on Father's Day, but never on Mother's Day. For us, mothers are very important.

Father Mother Culture Day You Find

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

Life Time Day Writing Decisions You

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